Suspect jailed in stabbings

FLORIDA - The State - In Brief

ST. AUGUSTINE -- A man thought to be an escaped prisoner from South Carolina has been arrested after a double stabbing Friday at a motel that left one woman dead and another injured, authorities said.

Authorities were trying to confirm if the man is James Daniel Turner, 33, who was serving a five-year prison sentence for criminal domestic violence, said Sgt. Chuck Mulligan of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.